Mass shootings

  • What do we know about the Maine shooting ‘person of interest’? Police have launched a manhunt as at least 15 people are feared dead after the Maine shooting. The authorities in Lewiston have released images of a man with a military-style assault rifle in a bowling alley and say they are looking for “armed and…

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  • AS she foreshadowed in the aftermath of the Christchurch massacre last Friday, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has just announced a ban in that country on specific military-style firearms. It will soon become an offence to own or possess semi-automatic firearms and shotguns with detachable magazines capable of firing more than five cartridges. Later this month, the government…

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